A word of tree, a whisper of stone

The Biblical story this Sunday will bring us to the region of Sodom and Gomorrah. These legendary cities are famous for their sinfulness. B...

    When you visit Lyman House in Hilo, Hawaii , a mid XIX century missionary residence turned museum, most likely you will be proudly show...

Good old Samaritans still exist! But barely. There are just a few hundred left. Of course I do not mean it here in the idiomatic sense a...

Mood matters! Mood really matters a great deal, even in the Bible. And here I don’t mean any moodiness, tempers or emotional swings.   ...

“NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!” Shrieks Cardinal Ximenez in the famous sketch done by Monty Python .     My seminary professor of...

Would you know how to calculate the volume of a spherical cap?      Well, in preparation for this Sunday’s sermon I refreshed my high schoo...

An abstract from my presentation at The 2013 Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Mind (June 5-8, Charleston WV). --...